muck

porquería, lodo

Materia húmeda y sucia que resulta desagradable al tacto.

En inglés sencillo: Wet, dirty material that feels unpleasant.

• My boots are covered in muck.
• She washed the sticky muck off her hands.
• There was a pool of gray muck under the sink.

Sinónimos: sludge, slime, filth

Expresiones frecuentes: covered in muck, sticky muck, wash off muck, thick muck

porquería, suciedad

Suciedad o cualquier cosa que se considera desagradable, repugnante o sin valor.

En inglés sencillo: Dirt or anything unpleasant, disgusting, or worthless.

• Get that muck off the table.
• I won't eat that disgusting muck.
• The cleaner removed years of muck from the walls.

Sinónimos: dirt, filth, rubbish

Expresiones frecuentes: clean off muck, disgusting muck, eat that muck

estropear, fastidiar

Estropear algo o hacer que salga mal.

En inglés sencillo: If you do this to something, you spoil it or cause it to go wrong.

• Don't muck this up.
• I mucked up the booking and chose the wrong date.
• The delay has mucked our plans up.

Cómo se usa: muck something up (One small mistake mucked the whole plan up.)

Sinónimos: mess up, spoil, bungle

Expresiones frecuentes: muck something up, muck up plans

hacer el tonto, perder el tiempo

Jugar o comportarse sin seriedad, a menudo perdiendo el tiempo.

En inglés sencillo: To play or behave without being serious, often wasting time.

• The kids like to muck around.
• We spent the afternoon mucking about in the garden.
• Stop mucking around during the lesson.

Cómo se usa: muck around/about (Stop mucking about and finish your homework.)

Sinónimos: fool around, mess about, play around

Expresiones frecuentes: muck around, muck about, muck around with something

limpiar el estiércol

Retirar los excrementos y el material sucio del suelo donde viven los animales.

En inglés sencillo: To remove waste and dirty bedding from a place where animals live.

• We need to muck out the stable.
• He mucked the pigs' pen out before breakfast.
• Who is mucking out the stalls today?

Cómo se usa: muck out something / muck something out (She mucks the stable out every morning.)

Sinónimos: clean out

Expresiones frecuentes: muck out stables, muck something out, muck out a stall, muck a stable